Graphics 6 Monitors

Trying to build a rig for monitoring statistics etc that needs to have 6 monitors. I've been doing quite a lot of digging and most people state to just get an eyefinity 6 card that uses displayport which at this time is not really possible.

I'm trying to do this on a budget and ideally would like to re-use existing monitors which are DVI/HDMI/VGA mixed (can drop the VGA ones though).

Is there an easy / cheap(ish) combo of GPU's that can do a total of 6 monitors?

Any thoughts on this appreciated as I'm going round in circles on google without much useful info!

How many PCIe ports do you have available, and does your motherboard have onboard graphics? Any cheap Nvidia or AMD card will support 2 monitors but you have to spend quite a bit to get 3 monitor support.

If you have the PCIe slots available then 3 £15 GT210s should work or 2 + onboard if supported. You could cut the end off a PCIe x1 slot if you have any of those free too.

I would check used market for some quadro NVS cards. Sometimes they can be had for very cheap and the newer series can do 4x monitors per card. Though, I think you will be limited to dvi, dp or vga if you go that way. Multi monitor is a lot easier with dvi and dp.

Interesting thoughts so far.
Do all lower end Nvidia and ATi GPU's only drive 2 monitors at a time then? Some reading earlier indicated that I might be able to use 3 with a GT640 interestingly and without the use of Display Port.

Rainbow; good thinking about the USB adaptors, I had a few of these myself but not used them in years. They will only be updating about once every 60 seconds or so as its just for monitoring the status of some equipment and 60 seconds is the poll rate on it.

As for the board, it's not been selected yet so plenty of choice at my feet on this one. Not looking to spend a fortune as it just needs to be "functional" really

You can have the following passive adapters:
DVI-->VGA
DVI-->HDMI
HDMI-->DVI

You can have any combination of active adapters. For which I see the likely use of them on the DP connector to whichever output type you desire.
Some manufacturers of GPU boards will allow you to use a passive adapter on the DP connector because they have built an active adapter onto the board. Check with the GPU board manufacturer specification for what video output configurations are possible.